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Global wine production falls, burgundy bottles lighten up, UK hospitality sector struggles
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 14 November 2025
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Berry's wine tasting for The Drinks Trust
11 November 2025 This event is now sold out. 30 October 2025 This worthwhile initiative needs your support, and you need an excuse to provide it while enjoying some exceptional...
Team JR
Thursday 30 October 2025
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Please, please buy at least one of these strong recommendations. See my similar selections of fizz, whites and reds. A...
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A seasonal treat luxuriated in … and notes from a long conversation with the man responsible for a heck of...
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James Mayor reports from northern Portugal on a brave attempt to solve the problems of the Douro, against which too...
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The problem of disappearing vineyard workers and old-vine produce disappearing into anodyne blends. A version of this article is published...
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Johnny Graham is celebrating 40 years of the port shipper he founded, rather against the odds. Above he is seen...
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21 April 2022 This article, rescued from our archives, nicely complements the story of Johnny Graham of Churchill's published today...
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Later Promising young enterprise Stakhovsky Wines in Zakarpattia, western Ukraine, set up by Ukraine's top tennis player, desperately needs 36,000...
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Amazing sherry bargains, lovely but unloved sweet wines and some enthralling ports, which should be served in glasses larger and...
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An anytime, anywhere classic recommended.
From HK$500, $66.99, £54, €79, SG$150.71, CA$149.99, 1,075 Norwegian kroner, NZ$184.95, 16,522 Japanese yen, 995...
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Optimistically, we're reviving our Travel Tips section, in this case with James Mayor's look at what the port houses are...
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Three tastings of amazing wines designed to last more than a century. How come we don't value them more?
Jancis...
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Strong wines aplenty here – all deserving of your attention.
Julia writes The Big Fortified Tasting, or BFT, has become...
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3 June 2021 Now that many of us have tasted freedom from lockdown, we are republishing this article free in...
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James Mayor discovers how a fifth-generation digital native is shaking up one of the best-known port shippers in its 140th...
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We too rarely have the chance to taste vintage port at optimum maturity. But this tasting of 63 of them...
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A cleverly stimulating alternative to the usual marking of the days leading up to Christmas.
Towards the end of 2020...
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